Katrina By the Numbers Monday

[truballer#1]

It's been a week since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. Let's take a look at some numbers from news reports yesterday and today...

$10,500,000,000 - Amount of Bush's first emergency relief bill for the hurricane-affected area

80 Days - Estimate by Army Corps Engineers to drain all parts of New Orleans

$404,000,000 - Estimate of American donations as of noon yesterday

2% - The maximum number of New Orleans residents who have not abandoned their city

470,000 - Number of customers without power as of Sunday morning

6,000,000 - Meals distributed to victims via relief agencies (Fox News on-air)

400,000 - The number of refugees housed in Louisiana and surrounding states

$500,000,000 - Amount The country of Kuwait has pleged in aid

17 - Number of states declared disaster areas because of Katrina (many, such as Utah, because of refugees)

$100,000,000,000 - Estimate of total monetary losses from Katrina

90,000 - Destruction area, in square miles affected by the storm (larger than Great Britain)

[ConvergenceZone]

great post, but they may have to move this into the aftermath thread, just a warning in case you come back and see the topic gone.

[f5]

I wonder what Tony Blair would do if all of Great Bratin were Flattened